First Hybrid On-Site and Hosted Cloud
Service Offering IT Workload Mobility
Slough, UK, 27th January 2010 – Following the
recent formation of its dedicated cloud consulting group,
international solutions provider, Logicalis, today launches its
Cooperative
Enterprise Cloud Service. Architected on Cisco’s Unified
Computing System (UCS) and NetApp storage solutions, the service is
the first to offer a single reference blueprint for on-site and
hosted cloud services, enabling enterprises and public sector
organisations to flex and scale their cloud computing strategies
while ensuring seamless interoperability.
On-site services will be delivered with Logicalis’ Bespoke
On-Site Cloud Service (BOCS), a right-sized computing and storage
infrastructure utilising Cisco’s UCS stateless computing platform
to enable virtualised and non-virtualised applications to coexist
on the same platform.
Logicalis’ hosted Cooperative Enterprise Cloud will offer a
range of capacity services and, as a hybrid matched architecture,
allow BOCS users to extend on-site infrastructure directly into the
hosted platform. Storage will be provided in both services by
NetApp.
“The matched architecture of our hosted service is critical in
providing enterprise and public sector customers with the
confidence of moving key workloads or critical services into the
cloud,” said Simon Daykin, chief architect at Logicalis UK,
adding;
“We can now deliver ‘workload containers’ where all of the
necessary resources to deliver an IT service, including its
compute, storage, and network elements, can be mobilised between
local and hosted clouds. Because both the on-site and hosted clouds
are architecturally matched, these containers can be moved back and
forward as logical constructs. Customers can continue to use their
own hypervisor software and platform of choice, such as VMWare or
Microsoft Hyper-V, to virtualise the infrastructure layer without
the constraints of rigid public clouds.”
The cooperative cloud model developed by Logicalis delivers the
key attributes required by both enterprises and government G-Cloud
CIOs, offering the economic benefits of elasticity with high levels
of security, reliability, flexibility, and onshore location.
Logicalis’ Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service also drives new
levels of infrastructure and energy efficiency; the right-sized
nature of BOCs allows the local cloud to operate at maximum
efficiency and, coupled with the hosted cloud delivering burst,
scalability, off-site disaster recovery and test capacity
on-demand, it ensures the service is highly optimised according to
actual business need.
Tom Kelly, managing director of Logicalis UK says, “This is the
first enterprise-class cloud computing service that truly addresses
the challenges driving ICT change. The Cooperative Enterprise Cloud
Service enables CIOs to safely exploit the commercial and
operational benefits of cloud-based strategies without
necessitating an all-or-nothing approach.
“Moreover, it allows customers to build and right-size on-site
private clouds, and then utilise our hosted cloud to scale as
required. Our belief is that matched-architecture hybrid clouds are
going to be the private and public sector’s first choice for their
cloud computing strategies.”
Available from Q2 2010 as a contracted service, Logicalis’
Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service will form part of the
company’s managed service portfolio. Logicalis will also be
launching its ‘Cisco Cloud Showcase Centre’, at its Slough
headquarters, in which enterprises can see and experience the
cooperative cloud architecture and full workload container
mobility.
For more information on Logicalis’ Cooperative Enterprise Cloud
Service: http://www.youtube.com/user/LogicalisUK
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information
and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded
on a superior breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications
& collaboration; data centre; and professional and managed
services.
With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis Group
employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including highly trained
service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex
ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500 corporate and
public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains
strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM
and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues in excess of $1
billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and
Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading
IT and Communications service providers, specialising in the areas
of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $4.2
billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM
Stock Exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.uk.logicalis.com/
For further information please contact:
Carina Parmar/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte Sandy
Cohesive Communications
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